Production
A Light Meter Party Trick
Incident meters can only tell you how much light is striking them, and nothing about how bright things are...
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LIGHT METERS: What are Incident Meters Good For, Anyway?
Way back when I shot film I was a serious devotee of The Zone System. I lived and died...
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CAMERAS: More Thoughts on Canon’s Color Science, This Time with Pictures
Accurate color and pretty color are not always the same. Let’s compare two Canon C300 color matrices and see...
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CAMERAS: Focusing and Setting Parallax on a 90-year-old Camera
When working with 90-year-old motion picture technology it’s not unusual to wonder how anything got made at all. Here’s...
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CAMERAS: Thoughts on the Canon C300’s Color Science
In theory I like the Canon C300. It’s small, it’s well designed, and it can make pretty pictures. The...
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CAMERAS: Reloading a 90-Year-Old Film Camera
There’s something special about threading film through a camera and watching it run through perfectly. There’s also a lot...
Production
Why I’m Going to Miss Film
For the first time in probably four years, I actually worked with–and handled–film today. It hit me that this...
Production
PHILOSOPHY: What Can a 49-Year-Old Ghost Story Tell Us About Craftsmanship?
Craftsmanship never goes out of style, and the “democratization” of filmmaking is no reason to get sloppy. Here’s a...
Production
CAMERAS: Rough Guide to Color Grading with the DSC Labs OneShot
In the old days we shot an 18% gray card to tell a film dailies timer where we wanted...
Production
CAMERAS: A New Chart for Film-Style Production–The DSC OneShot
In the old days of video, what we saw was what we got. Now, with log and raw, the...
